No single approach to teaching writing can suit the compositional styles and habits of all students in a class.

Humphreys' comments on double-median splits (TM 504 009) are essentially correct, but are not relevant to the original Kirby and Das article (EJ 182 444). His comments do not weaken our findings. (Author/RD)

Describes a research project relating physical environment parameters to infants' cognitive-intellectual development in the second year of life. Subjects were 39 infants (25 males, 14 females) who were 11 months of age upon their entrance into the study. (MP)

A survey was made of a teacher education program's weaknesses vis a vis mainstreaming of handicapped students, as perceived by 98 of its recent graduates, all of whom were full-time teachers. (Author/DLS)

The relationship between conservatism and openness to experience was examined. One study found that conservatism was significantly related to the scores on the Coan Experience Inventory. The other study demonstrated that high conservative subjects were less willing to volunteer for psychological experiments requiring openness. (Author/MV)

Are the children now attending primary schools and transferring to secondary education at 11 + necessarily at a serious disadvantage educationally as compared with their contemporaries who transfer at 8 or 9 (or even 10) to a middle school, and enter a secondary school at 12 or 13 (or even 14)? In attempting to answer this question considers the…

Reports a study conducted to determine whether several key concepts related to child development could be extended to existing theory and research concerning comprehension of television by kindergartners and early primary school children. Results indicate that children's indivisual differences partially explain amount and kind of social learning,…

A goodness of fit test presented by Andersen (EJ 143 939) is shown to be incorrect. The correct test is described and a re-analysis of Andersen's data is provided. (Author/CTM)

Graham Douglas' claims (TM 503 496) that the X2-test statistics of the paper, "Paired Comparisons with Individual Differences" (EJ 143 939), are incorrect are acknowledged to be justified (Author/CTM)

It was predicated that subjects possessing moderate theoretical values would do better using a new self-counseling procedure apparently emphasizing rational, logical processes than subjects possessing low or high theoretical values. Results were interpreted as indicating that particular client variables may be influential depending upon the…

This study investigated seven factors relating to personal preferences in choosing a career. Differences between male and female preferences were also studied. While males and females express similarities relating to the seven factors, they also reveal differences that should be considered by counselors helping individuals explore career choices.…

Individual differences in fear of success were measured for 98 female and 33 male college students. For females, fear of success was significantly related to performance decrement on masculine but not feminine tasks, with the relationship accounting for approximately 6 percent of the variance. (Author)

Reports the results of three independent studies designed to investigate the relationship between communicator style and attraction. (MH)

Data from four studies answer Carey's (1982, 1983) critical questions about the validity of the original Infant Temperament Questionnaire (ITQ). Discussion illuminates the complexity of establishing the construct validity of psychological assessments used with infants. Data suggest that both the original and revised Carey ITQs fail discriminant…